Justin Hutson, a former San Diego State men’s basketball assistant coach, is returning to Montezuma Mesa for a second stint, head coach Steve Fisher announced Monday. Hutson, who served as assistant coach at SDSU from 2006-2011, returns to the Aztecs after serving as an associate head coach at UNLV the past two seasons.

Hutson is reunited with Fisher, Brian Dutcher and Mark Fisher, a coaching group with which he spent five seasons previously. During that staff’s five-year tenure, the Aztecs earned postseason berths and won 20 or more games in each of those five campaigns (25.4 wins per year). SDSU also won six postseason tournament games, including three in the 2009 NIT where they appeared in the national semifinals and two in the 2011 NCAA tournament in a year in which San Diego State finished with a 34-3 record, advanced to the Sweet 16 and ended with a national ranking of No. 6/11 (AP/Coaches). At the Mountain West level, the Aztecs won the 2010 and 2011 tournament titles and the 2011 regular-season crown.

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